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Pokemon Go is an incredible game where you get to bring your favorite animated animals to the real world! It brings a lot of mechanics from the core series, but also makes up plenty of things for itself to keep things fresh. Eggs are a mechanic straight from the video games, though!

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Eggs in the game are items you keep in your Party until they hatch into baby Pokemon! The games can track the number of steps you take and hatch the Egg when you've gone far enough. It's the same basic idea in Pokemon Go, except you actually have to do the walking in real life! No need to worry; we'll tell you everything you need to know.

How To Get Eggs

Pokemon Go - an egg and a gift

The various types of Eggs can be acquired in different ways:

Egg

Acquisition Methods

2 Km Eggs

  • Spinning Photo Discs at Gyms and PokeStops

5 Km Eggs

  • Spinning Photo Discs at Gyms and PokeStops
  • Adventure Sync reward if you walk at least 25 km in a week

7 Km Eggs

  • Opening Gifts from Friends

10 Km Eggs

  • Spinning Photo Discs at Gyms and PokeStops
  • Adventure Sync reward if you walk at least 50 km in a week

12 Km Eggs (also sometimes called Strange Eggs)

  • Defeating Arlo, Cliff, or Sierra

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How To Hatch Eggs With Incubators

Pokemon Go - incubator

Eggs are hatched by walking with their Egg while it is in an Incubator. You need to walk a certain number of kilometres in order for the Egg to hatch, and the Egg varieties are broken up by the walking requirement. Once the Egg is in an incubator, you can play Pokemon Go like normal and let it track your steps in the background.

There are three kinds of Incubators:

Incubator

How To Get It

Number Of Uses

Special Abilities

Incubator (Orange)

You get this Incubator upon creating a Pokemon Go account.

Unlimited

None

Incubator (Blue)

  • Leveling up
  • Purchased from the in-game store
  • Received during certain Special Research quests

3

None

Super Incubator

  • Purchased from the in-game store
  • Received during certain Special Research quests

3

You need to walk 33 percent less in order to hatch the Egg.

Certain events may temporarily decrease the distance you need to walk in order to hatch an Egg.

Additional Rewards For Hatching Pokemon

In addition to receiving a Pokemon, you'll also get XP, Stardust, and Candies:

Egg Type

Rewards

2 Km

  • 500 XP
  • 400-800 Stardust
  • 5-15 Candies (for the Pokemon hatched)

5 Km

  • 1000 XP
  • 600-1600 Stardust
  • 10-21 Candies (for the Pokemon hatched)

7 Km

  • 1500 XP
  • 800-1600 Stardust
  • 10-21 Candies (for the Pokemon hatched)

10 Km

  • 2000 XP
  • 1600-3200 Stardust
  • 16-32 Candies (for the Pokemon hatched)

12 Km

  • 4000 XP
  • 3200-6400 Stardust
  • 16-32 Candies (for the Pokemon hatched)

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Every Egg Type And The Pokemon That Hatch From Them

Pokemon Go - togepi and some eggs

There are a few things you should keep in mind about hatching eggs:

  • The catchable Pokemon from any given Egg is determined when the Egg is received and does not change afterwards, even if the relevant event has ended, an event has started, you have moved, etc.
  • Ongoing events may alter which Pokemon can hatch from eggs. As we say above, that may cause you to hatch the event Pokemon even if the event has ended. After the event ends, the Pokemon catchable will revert to the list below.
  • Regional-Exclusive Pokemon can only hatch from the egg if their egg was received from their respective region. If you walk and hatch the Egg outside that region, you still might get the exclusive Pokemon.

2 Km Eggs

Pokemon

Type

Could It Be A Shiny?

Regional Exclusive

Rarity Out Of 5

Magikarp

Water

Yes

No

1

Pichu

Electric

Yes

No

1

Meditite

Fight/Psychic

Yes

No

1

Cleffa

Fairy

Yes

No

1

Pikipek

Normal/Flying

No

No

1

Yungoos

Normal

Yes

No

1

Fomantis

Grass

No

No

1

Stufful

Normal/Fighting

Yes

No

1

Wimpod

Bug/Water

No

No

1

5 Km Eggs

Regular Pokemon

Pokemon

Type

Could It Be A Shiny?

Regional Exclusive?

Rarity Out Of 5

Togepi

Fairy

Yes

No

1

Tyrogue

Fighting

Yes

No

1

Elekid

Electric

Yes

No

1

Magby

Fire

Yes

No

1

Miltank

Normal

Yes

No

2

Bronzor

Steel/Psychic

Yes

No

2

Rowlet

Grass/Flying

No

No

2

Litten

Fire

No

No

2

Popplio

Water

No

No

2

Mime Jr.

Yes

Yes, Europe

N/A

Additional Possible Pokemon If You Received The Egg As An Adventure Sync Reward

Cranidos

Rock

Yes

No

1

Shieldon

Rock/Steel

Yes

No

1

Happiny

Normal

Yes

No

1

Munchlax

Normal

No

No

1

Karrablast

Bug

Yes

No

1

Shelmet

Bug

Yes

No

1

7 Km Eggs

Pokemon

Type

Could It Be A Shiny?

Regional Exclusive?

Rarity Out Of 5

Alolan Sandshrew

Ice/Steel

Yes

No

2

Alolan Vulpix

Ice

Yes

No

2

Alolan Diglett

Ground/Steel

Yes

No

2

Alolan Meowth

Dark

Yes

No

2

Galarian Meowth

Steel

Yes

No

2

Alolan Geodude

Rock/Electric

Yes

No

1

Galarian Ponyta

Psychic

Yes

No

2

Galarian Slowpoke

Psychic

No

No

4

Galarian Farfech'd

Fight

Yes

No

2

Alolan Grimer

Poison/Dark

Yes

No

2

Galarian Zigzagoon

Dark/Normal

Yes

No

4

Galarian Darumaka

Ice

Yes

No

5

Galarian Stunfisk

Ground/Steel

Yes

No

2

10 Km Eggs

Regular Pokemon

Pokemon

Type

Could It Be A Shiny?

Regional Exclusive

Rarity Out Of 5

Riolu

Fighting

Yes

No

3

Tirtouga

Water/Rock

Yes

No

1

Archen

Rock/Flying

Yes

No

1

Axew

Dragon

Yes

No

2

Mienfoo

Fighting

No

No

1

Espurr

Psychic

Yes

No

2

Goomy

Dragon

No

No

3 (1 If You Received The Egg As An Adventure Sync Reward)

Noibat

Flying/Dragon

No

No

2

Rockruff

Rock

Yes

No

1

Jangmo-o

Dragon

No

No

3

Additional Possible Pokemon If You Received The Egg As An Adventure Sync Reward

Dratini

Dragon

Yes

No

1

Bagon

Dragon

Yes

No

1

Beldum

Steel/Psychic

Yes

No

1

Gible

Dragon/Ground

Yes

No

1

Riolu

Fighting

Yes

No

1

12 Km Eggs (Strange Eggs)

Pokemon

Type

Could It Be A Shiny?

Regional Exclusive

Rarity Out Of 5

Larvitar

Rock/Ground

Yes

No

1

Absol

Dark

Yes

No

3

Skorupi

Poison/Bug

Yes

No

3

Sandile

Ground/Dark

No

No

2

Scraggy

Dark/Fighting

No

No

1

Pawniard

Dark/Steel

No

No

1

Vullaby

Dark/Flying

Yes

No

1

Deino

Dark/Dragon

Yes

No

3

Pancham

Fighting

No

No

2

Salandit

Poison/Fire

No

No

3

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